A researcher proposes dedicated robotics evaluations that measure the capabilities supported by a robot's hardware rather than its control software, arguing that current policy evals conflate the two.…
NVIDIA announced the Open Agent Safety Platform on 28 September 2026, comprising NVIDIA OpenShell, an open-source runtime that sandboxes AI agents, and NVIDIA Sentry, an out-of-band watchdog on BlueFi…
Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Action, a 7B open-weights model that predicts robot actions and future video frames, on 22 September, and it now tops NVIDIA's RoboLab leaderboard at 42.9% with its s…
Figure reported that pretraining on its Index dataset raised full-task success in 30 previously unseen homes from 9% to 56%, a 47-percentage-point gain, in a September 17, 2026 evaluation that held ar…
Figure's billion-dollar commitment to training data produced a 6X boost in humanoid robot performance just four weeks after the announcement, according to Forbes senior contributor John Koetsier. The …
Building software specifically for AI agents will mostly fail because tools that work well for agents also work well for humans, existing tools hold a training-data advantage, and the ideal ergonomics…
Monumental founder and CEO Salar al Khafaji appeared on Episode 261 of The Robot Report Podcast to discuss "Walls as a Service" and the construction opportunity for robotics and automation. Al Khafaji…
Physical AI is moving AI beyond screens into robots, but the field is split on where inference should run: on-device versus in datacenters. Figure runs its Helix model entirely onboard, while Physical…
Figure has committed an initial $3.5 billion in compute from AI infrastructure provider Nscale, securing a path to as many as 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs to scale its Helix AI models for humanoid r…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on May 31, 2026 that the company is rebuilding its robotics division to develop humanoid robots, targeting construction-assisting models by 2027 and consumer robots lat…
Virtuals Protocol launched Eastworlds in late February 2026, a robotics accelerator and deployment lab that pairs humanoid robots with real-world teams to generate training data for its tokenized AI e…
Humanoid robots from Figure, Agility Robotics, and UBTech are progressing in real-world deployments, but a new Techstrong Special Report warns that impressive demonstrations do not yet translate into …
Persona AI, founded by Nic Radford and Jerry Pratt, is targeting shipyard welding as the first economically viable job for its humanoid robots, aiming to address a skilled labor shortage in shipbuildi…
Figure has reportedly manufactured its 1,000th humanoid robot at its BotQ facility in San Jose, according to a robotics-industry account surfaced by Aligned News, though the company has not confirmed …
Unitree Robotics founder and CEO Wang Xingxing unveiled the GD01, the world's first mass-produced, transformable mecha robot, standing 9 ft. tall and weighing half a ton, capable of carrying a human p…
Nvidia's new Jetson AGX Thor module cuts the physical footprint of its robotics supercomputer roughly in half while delivering 7.5 times the AI performance of its predecessor, the Jetson AGX Orin, acc…
Rémi Cadène, a former Tesla Optimus scientist, launched Paris-based startup UMA with a lightweight humanoid robot called Northstar, targeting European manufacturing and logistics. The company has 50 p…
Humanoid robots continue to stumble and fall in public demonstrations, including a face-plant during a dance performance in China and a collapse at the Beijing Half Marathon, highlighting their lack o…
Figure, a San Jose-based robotics company, completed a 200-hour continuous package-sorting operation using its Figure 03 robots, sorting 249,560 packages over nine days without failure. The marathon s…
The next major advancement in Physical AI will not come from more capable robots, but from smarter human-machine interfaces that allow users to interact with machines naturally in real-world environme…